Tips to minimize Workplace Negativity

Nothing can be more dangerous than the workplace negativity
that affects employee morale. It weakens the organizational positive energy and
diverts significant attention from performance and work. You can find the negativity
in one’s outlook, attitude, or the way of talking of one of the department
members, or in increasing voices that respond to an event or a decision of
workplace.

First of all, you need to know that there is negative energy
around the work and people. Once you get to know that there is something wrong
with the team members or the departments, the next step would be to probe more
into the reasons and the beginning of these negative vibes. Being an HR
professional, you always closely connected to the employees of the company and
it becomes easy to get to know more about the negative things going on inside
the premises. Take an advantage of the position and try to know more and go
deeper to the roots of the problems.

Here, we are sharing some tips to minimize the workplace
negativity.

Work Empowerment:
The organizations need to understand that they need to provide opportunities to
the employees to take the decisions about their own job. The first and most
common and frequent reason for the workplace negativity is visible to the
employee’s reporting manager or when the organization itself takes a decision
about an employee’s assignments without asking for any inputs.

Opportunities to
Speak Up: You need to give the opportunities to the employees to express
their point of views and opinions about the policies and procedures of the
organization. You need to notice the impacts when changes are done in the areas
like salaries, benefits, working hours, overtime hours, dress codes, workplace
location, and working conditions. These factors are the most important that
impacts the peace of mind of an employee because these are the closest to their
mind and physical presence. Changes made in these policies can cause grave
negative reactions.

Treat Fairly: The
HR professionals need to make sure that you treat people with fairness and
steadiness. They are required to create and share the workplace policies that
organize the tasks effectively and also relate them constantly. For an
instance, if one employee is taking a leave for a said number of days in a
stretch, make sure that the other employees are also given permission for the
same so that there is no discrepancy of the policies and hence no negativity
among the employees of being unfairly treated.

Trust your people:
HR professionals have the duty to treat their employees considering them
trustworthy and respect worthy, simply because they are. You have hired the
person trusting his ability to fit into the organization and the job profile.
You can go ahead for verifying their performance and contribution towards the
organizational goals over time. Take the necessary steps that the employees
also believe you to come to you to discuss their problem. If they don’t reach
the position of trusting you, they will only hate you.

Every Employee is
Important: You need to understand that each employee of the organization,
irrespective of the position he/ she is working on needs to feel important of
the position and the job profile they are handling. In case you are sharing
some information, make sure you share it with every employee of the company at
the same time so that feel a member of the in-crowd.

Don’t create Rules
for All: The weird it may sound, it is true and important. Once you get an
information or you noticed something wrong in the organization, you should make
sure that you take actions appropriately and specifically to the people
involved or the teams violating the rules. It is not a good thing to apply new
rules and policies to the whole organization when it should only be meant for
few people.